Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

They know enough who know how to learn.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Every man is his own hell.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

I can be a cruel person.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

I am just one human being.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

You are victors, not victims!

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

What we think, we become.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.